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macOS has a good solution to this, where attempting to open an unsigned binary will fail and warn the user, but can be overridden in the file's context menu.

• kodablah 8y ago
  Windows has the same thing (well, unsigned downloaded binaries that aren't otherwise vetted/popular).
• dogma1138 8y ago
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_SmartScreen https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_SmartScreen And this is considerably better than the “this app was downloaded from the internet do you want to open it” message that OSX provides which Windows provides by default also to all files downloaded from the internet.
  • anyfoo 8y ago
    The message you mention is not what was meant.
    • dogma1138 8y ago
      It’s exactly what was meant as you need to do shift+open to install unsigned apps which doesn’t add much if anything.